Bay Area innovator stops shoplifting, gives shoppers power to open padlocked shelves::New technology coming to stores could stop theft and ease customer access.
In the first half of 2023, shoplifting reports were 16% higher than the first half of 2019. New York City saw a 44% increase in shoplifting complaints between 2021 and 2022. New York and Los Angeles saw the largest increases in shoplifting from 2019 to 2023, with more than 60% increases.
lol ok
you think they are just locking stuff up for fun?
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https://counciloncj.org/is-shoplifting-up-or-down/
And yet the comment I replied to was “They fixed a problem that wasn’t real”.
Incredibly scientific and thoroughly sourced lol.
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Wow, those percentages are large numbers. Except a 50% increase starting at .01 crimes a day ends up being only .015 crimes a day. So maybe some additional context can be helpful to know if the problem is rampant or just a tiny problem in some cities becoming a slightly bigger tiny problem.
Why are they only reporting numbers from the pandemic? This is like my local paper talking about how “traffic deaths have shot up since 2020” while omitting the fact that nobody was driving around in 2020. You’re telling me shoplifting is up when compared to a time where most people weren’t going out in public, let alone shopping at retail stores?
